Miguel Otero Silva
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Miguel Otero Silva (born October 26, 1908 in Barcelona (Venezuela) , † August 28, 1985 in Caracas ) was a Venezuelan writer, poet, journalist, humorist, civil engineer and politician.
Live and act
After attending a high school in Caracas, Otero studied civil engineering there at the Universidad Central de Venezuela . While studying in Caracas, he tried his hand at journalism in the publications of his university. As a student, Otero revolted against the Gómez government in 1928 , failed and fled to his first exile on Curaçao . Otero's involvement in the second attack on the government on the mainland - this time an invasion in June 1929 via Falcón State - also failed.
At the beginning of the 1930s, Otero was working on his first novel Fieber and, as a Marxist , sought contact with the Comintern . Gómez died in late 1935. His successor Eleazar López Contreras strove to democratize Venezuela. Otero was able to return home and was allowed to publish. However, in 1937 it was over for the communist Otero with freedom. The next exiles were inevitably Mexico , the USA and Colombia . In 1940 Otero was allowed to return home again and worked as a journalist in Caracas. In 1943 his father Henrique Otero Vizcarrondo founded the left-liberal El Nacional . Miguel Otero worked on the daily newspaper, studied journalism at his old university - see above - and in 1946 married the journalist María Teresa Castillo. The couple had two children - Henrique and Mariana. In 1951, Miguel Otero left the Partido Comunista de Venezuela because of the strict party discipline and studied life in Ortiz in the state of Guárico for a year . The fruit of this stay was the 1956 award-winning work Casas muertas (Dead Houses).
Miguel Otero El Nacional sheet mentioned above was banned twice under Jiménez . Towards the end of the dictator's rule - around 1957 - the newspaper owner Miguel Otero was arrested.
At the beginning of the 1960s - after the fall of the dictatorship - Miguel Otero was elected as the representative of the state of Aragua in the Senate of Venezuela , the country's highest legislature, and was honored with the national prize for journalism .
For the Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt , Miguel Otero's ideas gradually became too communist. Otero therefore withdrew from government work and daily journalistic work and devoted himself to writing projects in the 1960s.
Shortly after the publication of La Piedra que era Cristo , Otero died.
Works (selection)
prose
- Fiebre (novel, 1939), fever. Novel of the Venezuelan Revolution , German Lene Klein (1960)
- Casas muertas (novel, 1955), Dead Houses
- Oficina n.º 1 (1961), farm No. 1
- La muerte de Honorio (novel, 1963), The Death of Honorio , German Christel Dorbencker (1976)
- Cuando quiero llorar no lloro (novel, 1970), I don't cry , German Roland Erb (1975)
- Lope de Aguirre, príncipe de la libertad (novel, 1979), Lope de Aguirre, Prince of Freedom , German Wilhelm Plackmeyer (1981)
- La piedra que era Cristo (1985)
Poetry
- Agua y cauce: poemas revolucionarios (1937), water and river bed
- 25 poemas (1942)
- Elegía coral a Andrés Eloy Blanco (1959)
- La Mar que es el Morir (1965)
- Las Celestiales (1965)
- Umbral (1966)
Honors
- National Prize for Literature (Venezuela) 1956 for the novel Casas Muertas
- National Prize for Journalism (Venezuela)
- Member of the Venezuelan Academy of Language (1967)
- International Lenin Peace Prize (1979)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Otero Silva, Miguel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 26, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barcelona (Venezuela) |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1985 |
| Place of death | Caracas |